"I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with."

-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Needs Quotes #Communicate Quotes

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press
“I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.”
“Iâ€™d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds Iâ€™ll never see.”
“There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.”

Source : "Local hero". Interview with Demetrios Matheou, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.
“Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.”
“There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Womenâ€¦and Messi”
“I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.”

Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.”

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